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Monday, January 28, 2013

I've been a bad blogger, and I have not fulfilled my obligations to my friends. I am sorry to Ellie Garratt and Michael Offutt. Things have been so crazy: moving, and then going out of town, and then returning with a horrible case of bronchitis.

As you're reading this, I'm in a car heading out of town to visit with clients. Busy busy!

So I need to play catch up, even if I'm late to the party:

This is so incredible!

Passing Time Cover Reveal...I LOVE this cover. So much that I had to ask Ellie who did the art. I was supposed to post this three weeks ago, but when I thought of doing it, I had no internet access due to the move. So sorry Ellie!

Nine Short Tales of the Strange and the Macabre

Book Blurb

Nine dark fiction stories that may just
give you nightmares.

A man lives to regret Passing Time.
A father will do anything to save his son in Expiration Date.
An author finds out her worst nightmare is back in The Devil’s
Song. A woman gets more than the claim fee when she takes out
vampire insurance in Luna Black.

In Dining in Hell, the Death
Valley Diner becomes the wrong place to stop.

Ellie!!!!

A serial killer wants to add another
file to his collection in The Vegas Screamer. In Eating Mr.
Bone, an undertaker could meet an unfortunate end. A con man
meets his first ghost in Land of the Free. And will truth
finally be set free in The Letter?

Publication date: 11th
February 2013

About The Author

A life-long addiction to reading
science fiction and horror, meant writing was the logical outlet for
Ellie Garratt’s passions. She is a reader, writer, blogger,
Trekkie, and would happily die to be an extra in The Walking Dead.
Her short stories have been published in anthologies and online.
Passing Time is her first eBook collection and contains nine
previously published stories. Her science fiction collection Taking
Time will be published later in the year.

I'm looking forward to reading Oculus, Book 2 of A Crisis of Two Worlds. I absolutely loved Slipstream, and it was easily one of my favorite books of 2012.

I was supposed to post this in support of Michael's blog tour that ended last week. Ugh. But I got really sick and wasn't able to get this up on here. I'm sorry, Michael!

For his visit to my blog, I wanted to a fun 13 Fun Facts Questionnaire. So here's 13 interesting things about Mr. Offutt:

Some spider-love!

My
mom used to raise show cats. At one time she had 18 of them, and the
whole house smelt like cat pee. She named them all after Greek gods.

I
storyboard an entire novel out on paper before I begin to write. It
helps to keep me on track.

The
first book I published is actually the fifth story I wrote.

I
was born on Friday the 13th.

I
played World of Warcraft for many years and named many of the folks
from my novel after characters in my guild. I still keep in touch
with a few of them, including my former raid leader who now plays
with uber guild “Elitist Jerks” on Mal’ganis (US) (our guild
was number one on the server for six years).

I
think upper level math is extremely important. I used it in World of
Warcraft to make sure people were pulling their weight on
applications as far as damage per second or heals per second went.
This respect for math carries over to my writing, and it’s why
Jordan does math so well. I based all of Jordan’s utility with the
slipstream that he uses on his mastery of math.

I
check my page views on my blog multiple times a day to see how many
people are looking at my “books” page at any given moment. It
excites me to find a high number of people doing that, or to see
people checking out the excerpts I have posted.

With
regard to “A Crisis of Two Worlds” as a series, I’m still up
in the air as to whether I’ll destroy Earth. But I’m really
leaning toward that. I think it would be cool.

It
takes me a long time to write a book.

I
post free fiction on an erotic website. Some of the email I receive
from readers who find me there are the best fan mails I’ve ever
gotten.

I hope to get back on track with everything. So far, 2013 had been rough on me. But some good things are just over the horizon. My project with Miranda Hardy is coming along nicely, and hopefully we'll soon be able to tell you more about it. And I got to see the art for my cover of my debut novel, Dragonfly Warrior. I wanted a cover that will kick ass....and show the reader exactly what they're getting: Asian Steampunk.

But my blogging is very important to me, and I promise to catch up with all of you.

Wow, when you catch up you don't mess around. I'm still laughing at the steampunk glasses and I love Ellie's cover too. Michael's interview lives up to the excitement I always see in his posts. Great job Jay!

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About Me

Blogging since 2005.
Medical sales warrior by day, writing ninja by night...
I am the author of The Mechanica Wars series. The first book, Dragonfly Warrior, will be published in January, 2014 by 4 Wing Press.
I love science fiction, fantasy, literary fiction, biographies, and chocolate chip cookies.
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